Y'all PLEASE Find A Way To Make This Work!

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With our country coming down all around us, we very badly need a place to come to, to ask for help, and since I signed on here, this has been that place.

Now I don’t know what’s gotten everyone so riled up, or how it even started, but y’all are scaring me, because I consider you - ALL OF YOU- my family, and I do not want to lose my family - especially not now when this is the one place I can come to for some comfort.

I propose we have a meeting of the Administrative Staff and those of our members who want to keep this site alive and let’s see what we can work out. I am willing to contribute to the cause of making that happen, so how about it?

We should NOT just walk away from something that has done so much good for so many people just because a few of us got the “Red-Ass”, dammit!

I myself have had enough meltdowns and stayed away (or tried to), but y’all didn’t just let me go!

We can make this work, but it has to be done diplomatically, not dictatorially! And I sure don’t see y’all as “kids” saying “Well, if that’s the way it’s gonna be, I’ll just find myself another place to play!”

What would you have called that kid on the playground?

A PUSSY, right?

So I’m putting my money where my uh… fingers are, and I will commit to 100.00 dollars to send some folks to Chicago, have a sit-down and work this shit out.

There’s tradition here, there’s “cohesion” and there’s a lot of fine folks too. We need to keep the family together and do whatever it takes to make that happen.

Quasi out

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What Quasi said.

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Quasi, buddy, some things just have to sort themselves out. Ed’s made his position clear. He doesn’t particularly care what anybody thinks, and he doesn’t care who leaves. There’s some, like me, that will likely be banned shortly. Never was good at keeping my mouth shut.

If that happens, it happens. In case I don’t get a chance to say goodbye, know I’m pulling for you. Frankly, I don’t have the balls to face what you’re facing. Good luck, and good hunting.

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Hate to break this to you, but Ed has never given a particularly substantial shit what members think, say, do, opine, beg, or entreat. It’s one of the major failures of this board.

That, and he’s an incredibly bad micromanager. None of this shit was broken (except for the damn servers. Where are all those promised features again?), but Ed considers it his duty to wade right the fuck in and “fix” it anyway.

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Just the same, I’ll stack another $100USD next to Quasimodem’s to make this work.

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One poster quitting and another dozen making vague threats about quitting isn’t the end of the world, you know. It’s happened before, it will happen again, for ever and ever, amen.

Blessed be the name of The Straight Dope…

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I don’t see this as affecting you. This whole thing is mostly about the new Pit rules. Since you post mostly in MPSIMS and have done a semi-self-ban in the Pit, I don’t see how this could affect you except for the people who will be leaving the board. I’ve only seen one person say they’re leaving the entire board. Others have said they’ll boycott the Pit, but you don’t go there anyway, so you should be fine.

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It’s hard to take your plea seriously when you admit you have no clue what is going on.

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I don’t think this will cause the Dope to end. I think it will make it change in a bad way. There are many places on the web. This place is different. Lets keep it that way.

Not having a place to take disputes will effect the board. All of it. Maybe it won’t change it enough for you to care but it will for many loyal long time members.

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Stay cool, Quasi. I’m not happy, but I’m not giving up yet.

Aha! There’s the little button to turn off the signature. Hm. Can you turn it off when you edit?

Edit: Apparently not.

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Hey, I’ll take a free trip to Chicago. Does that include hotel?

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I fixed it for you, assuming you wanted it fixed. If you didn’t, let me know and I can put it back.

Gfactor
Moderator

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Ah … affect.

In point of fact, having a place to take disputes is part of what effected this board. If you take my point?

Gol dang you to heck! Intercourse your id if you claim only a loose command of my native tongue.

Ya big Cayuse, ya.

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Didn’t matter one way or the other, I was just using the post to test previous noted behavior.

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Fine then. :slight_smile:

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No worries on my part. I think that in all my posting history I have probably posted in the pit less than 200 times - maybe less than 100. I am not a pit poster and if I were, I don’t see any reason we can’t be more civil.

So it works for me.

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Oh believe me, I* will* be affected by the new Pit rules. I used to hang out in the Pit. And these rules have made the Pit arbitrary and nonsensical. Just today there are more rules posted that are dictatorial, arbitrary and make no sense.

But I was speaking to Quasimodem in my post. He often goes in MPSIMS for reassurance about his perception of things because of his Alzheimer’s. Despite what happens on the rest of the board, I don’t think the Doper spirit of helpfulness and friendliness will die in MPSIMS, especially since there are many in MPSIMS who don’t venture out of that forum. And because, no matter what, Doper friendliness and helpfulness are what characterize the best parts of this place.

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You want a good example of why we’re having so much confusion just check this thread. Seriously, did these guys not get together and hammer this out before posting the “new” rules?

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You are absolutely right, I do spend a lot of time in MPSIMS and as I have mentioned before, the times I wind up in the PIT or GD, it’s like “after the fact”, and I have written something, see where it winds up and say to myself “Oh Scheisse, old man! You’ve done it again!”:slight_smile:

But if you will, just let me say that the new “Pit Rules” is just an “indicator” of what’s wrong, and if the “Pit” rules are causing our membership to look elsewhere, then it affects SDMB as a whole, and that doesn’t have to be!

Yeah, I caught the Alzheimer’s, but part of my brain still works and what I am reading is that there is unhappiness with the “management”, and I’m SORRY, but it sounds like to me, that the “management” is saying, “If you don’t like it, leave!”

Okay, I’m not in Ed’s shoes, but if I were the Head Honcho of an organization that’s been around for 39 years, and all of a sudden I got wind that some of my decisions weren’t being agreed with, I think I’d for damn sure wanna know why, before I shot myself in the foot.

That’s why I support a meeting to let cooler heads prevail.

Am I overreacting?

You tell me!

If I am, and the majority of you think I am, I’ll just drink my Metamucil and shuffle off to bed.

Fair enough?

I love SDMB and I love the people who populate it. It is an icon among message boards, and it deserves better than what I see happening.

Thanks

Bill

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Quasi, we are meeting, all of us, together, including you, by posting on-line in the various threads of the SADMB’s ATMB. Ed, the admins, the mods, and the members, are all able to discuss their opinions and concerns with each other this way.